Sunday Morning Book Thread 04-01-2018

Library of Lurker Winston
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Pic Note

I had to artificially brighten up this week's pic a bit as the original was too dark.

Winston writes:

The photo is of what I call my, working library. Hiking guidebooks of the Northwest, natural history, plant and animal subjects. A few of my history books and general literature also. The thousand or so books I have won't all fit in the same room so they're scattered about the house.

The Wisdom of Yoot

In last week's book thread, this comment

249 The media now getting "wisdom" from teens and pre-teens about we ought to live, what rights ought to be kept or jettisoned, how to keep our "democracy," etc. Reminder: children should be seen and not heard.

Posted by: FIIGMO at March 25, 2018 11:00 AM (E+qJE)

...reminded me of this book, Wild in the Streets, published in 1968, which takes place in an America that has lowered the voting to some ridiculous age like 11 or 12, and all of a sudden it's all free sex, free drugs, and free rock and roll, 24/7. I think all the adults are even herded into camps, or some such. What fun! Don't remember if it discussed what effect this had on America's foreign policy.

If you want to know how something like this worked out for realz, then perhaps a book like Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Ji Jiang is can help:

A child's nightmare unfolds in Jiang's chronicle of the excesses of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1960s. She was a young teenager at the height of the fervor, when children rose up against their parents, students against teachers, and neighbor against neighbor in an orgy of doublespeak, name-calling, and worse. Intelligence was suspect, and everyone was exhorted to root out the "Four Olds"--old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. She tells how it felt to burn family photographs and treasured heirlooms so they would not be used as evidence of their failure to repudiate a "black"--i.e., land-owning--past. In the name of the revolution, homes were searched and possessions taken or destroyed, her father imprisoned, and her mother's health imperiled--until the next round of revolutionaries came in and reversed many of the dicta of the last.

Those media potato-heads urging us to listen the likes of David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez for policy prescriptions really need to think about what they're asking.

It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

Something that is AROMAOLENT is fragrant or sweet smelling.

Usage: Donald Trump's aromaolent election victory in November, 2016...

Usage: On election night, the sound of Hillary's concession speech wafted through my house aromaolently, bringing to mind warm maple syrup over waffles - and victory, sweet victory.

A Request For Recommendation

A lurking moron emails me to ask about biographies of Ronald Reagan:

I have always wanted to read a good , solid biography of my favorite president , but wading through all the biased ones is a chore .... what is generally acknowledged to the best one for a conservative reader ?

I'm not familiar with the relative quality of the various biographies that have been published, but that's not going to stop me from running my mouth. I do know that the one you absolutely want to avoid is Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris. This is why:

Few, if any, biographies in recent years have generated so much controversy about the role and responsibility of the biographer as this muddled but infuriatingly readable account. Morris received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and, on the strength of that impressive work, was appointed Reagan's authorized biographer in 1985. Not necessarily to his credit, Morris may have invented the genre of virtual biography, through which the author insinuates himself into Reagan's life. As readers know now, the Morris in these pages is not even the real South African-raised Morris but an older American version about the same age as Reagan. Some events, notably the death of Reagan's infant daughter; his testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) about Communist infiltration of the Screen Actors Guild; and his split with first wife Jane Wyman, are actually portrayed in play form, giving a surreal quality to these very real traumas.

The way I heard it, Morris, despite years of research and access to Reagan himself, never could figure out who Reagan really was. So he turned what should have been biography into a weird literary experiment, part historical novel, part play, and even part fictional autobiography as he inserts himself into Reagan's life as a character who sees Reagan at what he thinks are key points in his life. I remember when this biography was first published way back when (1999) and the reviewers were all, like, WTF? even before 'WTF' became common usage.

As the publisher's blurb noted, Morris wrote a really good biography of Theodore Roosevelt, so everyone was blindsided by this dumpster fire of a Reagan bio.

I don't think you can go wrong than reading Reagan in his own words. For example, Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America:

Ronald Reagan was an inveterate writer. He wrote not only letters, short fiction, poetry, and sports stories, but speeches, newspaper articles, and radio commentary on public policy issues, both foreign and domestic.

Most of Reagan's original writings are pre-presidential. From 1975 to 1979 he gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, two-thirds of which he wrote himself. They cover every topic imaginable: from labor policy to the nature of communism, from World War II to the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, from the future of Africa and East Asia to that of the United States and the world. They range from highly specific arguments to grand philosophy to personal stories.

Remember, this is the man the left derided constantly as a dunce, an idiot, a know-nothing, and a sleepwalking dunderhead.

Somewhere on YouTube (I'm too lazy to look it up) is a debate on the Vietnam War pitting Reagan vs. Bobby Kennedy. Reagan wiped the floor with him.

Also available are The Reagan Diaries:

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record—the only daily Presidential diary in American history—is available for the first time...

Seldom before has the American public been given access to the unfiltered experiences and opinions of a President in his own words. To read these diaries—filled with Reagan’s trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to gain a unique understanding of one of the most beloved occupants of the Oval Office in our nation’s history.

If any of you morons know what bios of Reagan are good, please let us know in the comments.

Moron Recommendations

Got a recommendation from Captain Hate last week that looks interesting, but I have to clean up the language a bit, this being the classy, hoity-toity book thread and all:

36 Anybody read "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad" by John Schindler? It was recommended to me because Slick's "humanitarian" bombing of the Orthodox Christians on behalf of the Muslims has bugged the ████ out of me ever since it happened, particularly how the MFM was █████ing uncontrollably at the thought of going to war. I'm not very far into it but it's already confirming nearly every ████ing thing I strongly suspected, namely that there was and always has been a ███████ ███ element present there that collaborated with the nazis that persisted through the post war commies, who oddly considered the ████ing ████ ███████████ as somehow tolerable even though those ███████████ are just as politically motivated as the ██████ ████ers. Anyway I'm still into the historical matters and it's just dawned on those ███ dumb█████ after the Iran revolution they start seeing pictures of Khomeini in windows that maybe this Shia/Sunni split isn't gonna keep those ████████ from joining the umma anyway and sorting out the differences afterward. Just ████ing brilliant.

Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone else has read this. It might be OOP and there was only one copy available in the entire Cleveland public library since this wouldn't be of interest to most of the ███████ and butt████ers who use the system.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

You'd better read the hardback edition or Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad, since you can buy it for $11, while the Kindle edition costs a whopping $27.95.

What I'm Reading

I've heard that Ronald Reagan used to joke about his Alzheimer's affliction, saying that the good thing about it was that he got to meet new friends every day. Something like that is going on with me, only it's not Alzheimer's. It'd just that I used to have a very good memory only the various surgeries I have had in the last couple of decades have really knocked it out. Plus the old age, don't forget that. I hardly remember anything any more.

So I've started re-reading some of Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld novels, in particular those of the 'City Watch' arc. I first read them about 20 years ago, before age and ill health started to take their toll. I remember the characters (Vimes, Angua, Carrot, Detritus, etc.), but nothing of the plots. So, for example, in Guards, Guards, I had no idea that they had to deal with a giant dragon some idiots managed to summon from another dimension. And my failing memory didn't even give me the courtesy of a "oh, *now* I remember..." moment, it was like I was reading the book for the first time.

So I just finished Men At Arms earlier this week. It was like I had found a new friend.

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Comments

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1 !

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 08:53 AM (rQewO)

2 books for the book god

skulls for the skull throne

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 08:54 AM (qJtVm)

3 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 08:56 AM (aC6Sd)

4 After seeing many recommendations here, I read The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. A great story, well-told and well-researched.

Posted by: Zoltan at April 01, 2018 08:57 AM (T8WeQ)

5 Happy Book Thread!!!!

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6 If Hogg did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Posted by: CNN at April 01, 2018 08:59 AM (fZlu3)

7 Read 'The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey' by Candice Millard.

In early 1914 T.R. along with his son Kermit and Brazilian explorer Candido M. da Silva Rondon set out to be the first white people to explore the Rio da Duvida (Doubt) in the Amazon. Poorly planned and provisioned by two half-wits it became a nightmare journey. 400 miles overland then 1k miles by river they lost most of their supplies. Indians, insects, near-starvation, illness, disease, murder, and other unpleasantries conspired to kill them all. T.R. nearly died from a wound infection.

T.R. was a great man, but for some reason underestimated the Amazon where everything in it whether alive or dead want's to kill you.

Some head music.

Suke Cerulo-The Known Universe
https://youtu.be/17jymDn0W6U

The Mushroom Club-Blues For U
https://youtu.be/frj-s33lpwg

Johnny Horton-Battle of N. Orleans
https://youtu.be/50_iRIcxsz0

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 09:03 AM (8EJVd)

8 I just finished "What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror" by David Wong (actually Jason Pargin), the third in the absurdist series in which John, David, and Amy chase down malevolent extradimensional critters who are stealing the town's children -- or are they?

The book is hilarious but there's also base notes of melancholy, because being a monster hunter when you're in your late twenties in a dying rust belt burg can be a hard, thankless job that doesn't really pay the bills.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 09:05 AM (qJtVm)

9 Jake, I loved that book! I'm a Ted Head and still learned new stuff about the man.

Teddy said unlike Africa, in the Amazon it's the little things that are out to get you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 09:06 AM (qJtVm)

10 John Schindler is a bit of a jerk and a rabid NeverTrumper. He was also involved in a sexting scandal (he was married at the time) and I believe had to leave Naval war College because of it. He sees Russians underneath everyone's beds, especially president Trump's, and in my estimation has lost his fvcking mind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2018 09:06 AM (wYseH)

11 Remember, pants are required when reading the assiduously-pared Easter-morning profanity of Captain Hate.

*looks at what he just typed*

I think coffee and a shower now, happy Easter and I'll be back when I can word gooder.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 01, 2018 09:06 AM (y87Qq)

12 Reagan's War, by Peter Sweitzer, is pretty good. It focuses on his long war against communism, and explains how virtually everything he did against Russia while in office was part of a grand strategy to bring down the USSR.

Swetzter includes some stuff from Soviet archives which demonstrate that the Soviets understood what Reagan was doing even when the American liberals couldn't figure it out.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 01, 2018 09:07 AM (bZ7mE)

13 OM, I have to admit you disappointed me.

When I saw your link to "Men at Arms" I thought it was to the brilliant first book of Evelyn Waugh's "Sword of Honor" trilogy.

There are two books that have profoundly impacted me. The first was "Lord of the Rings," which I read in middle school.

The second was the "Sword of Honor" trilogy, probably the best novel about World War II. It's witty, hilarious at times, flawlessly written but also steeped in Waugh's Catholic faith. I was going through a rough patch when I discovered it and it unlocked wells of strength for me to get through.

Like "Casablanca," it is hard for me to overstate how awesome that books is.

One day, when I'm retired form the service, I want to write a book like that. I'm no Waugh, but I have to at least try.

Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at April 01, 2018 09:07 AM (cfSRQ)

14 I see that a certain book is prominently displayed almost front and center. Outstanding selection sir. And I see pipes in the lower shelf. All that's missing is a bottle of scotch.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 01, 2018 09:08 AM (j9KK9)

15 Reagan recomendation- Reagans War-
Peter Schweizer

Posted by: Scott at April 01, 2018 09:09 AM (LftPv)

16 I'm a Ted Head...

Heh. Me too. Washington, Jefferson, and TR are my 3 favorite presidents.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 09:09 AM (8EJVd)

17 Where's Vic ?

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 09:10 AM (rQewO)

18
If any of you morons know what bios of Reagan are good, please let us know in the comments.

Peggy Noonan ( I know, but this was decades ago) wrote a decent book on Reagan. I've also read 'Reagan, In His Own Hand'.

Believe it or not imho, Nonnan's was better.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 01, 2018 09:10 AM (LOgQ4)

19 I've been battling Influenza "B" for about two weeks and slowly regaining the feeling I might actually survive. I now really appreciate the imagery of the phrase "weak as a kitten". I could barely summon the energy to read as I seemed to be asleep about 18-20 hours a day.

However, based on a recommendation here about three weeks ago, I bought "Death at Nuremberg" and started binge reading it yesterday. I know it's fluff, but I invariably enjoy reading Griffin's stuff and this is no exception. I should finish it today.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 01, 2018 09:10 AM (n9EOP)

20
As this is the anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa, I recommend 'With the Old Breed on Pelelieu and Okinawa" by Eugene B. Sledge.

It's regarded as the best account of what it's like to be an infantryman in combat ever written.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 01, 2018 09:11 AM (VM6ev)

21 Craig Shirley has 4 Reagan bios, all good. Also very good, Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 01, 2018 09:11 AM (Ndje9)

22 He is Risen! God bless all the Horde.

My favorite Easter read of all time, which I read annually, is Death on a Friday Afternoon, by the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. It is profound and will stay with you for life.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 01, 2018 09:12 AM (K2hsm)

23 children should be seen and not heard.

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that as a kid.

Posted by: Infidel at April 01, 2018 09:12 AM (a3OL0)

24 How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life, by speechwriter Peter Robinson is high among my favorites.

Unfortunately I've bought far more Reagan books than I've actually read.

Reagan in his own voice is a collection of his radio broadcasts.
Also highly recommended.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at April 01, 2018 09:12 AM (vFHFh)

25 The second "aromaolent" usage example is wrong, since Hillary (WWNBP) did not make a concession speech on election night.

Posted by: cool breeze at April 01, 2018 09:13 AM (UGKMd)

26
Doing further research I see that Peggy Noonan was a speechwriter for President Reagan. I forget which of these I read. Probably the first one.

When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 01, 2018 09:13 AM (LOgQ4)

27 Good morning fellow Book Threadists and a blessed holy day for the Horde. I hope everyone had a good week of reading.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:14 AM (V+03K)

28 Hrothgar, glad you are recovering. That's a nasty bug by all accounts.

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29 Wasn't Wild in the Streets the prequel to Logan's Run?

Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at April 01, 2018 09:16 AM (yQpMk)

30 Wild in the Streets was also a pretty bad 60's movie..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 01, 2018 09:17 AM (5tSKk)

31 Happy Easter, everyone!
I have an as yet unopened copy of Reagan's autobiography, "An American Life". It's rather girthy. Haven't found the time to dive in, wonder if anyone has read it and can give it a thumbs up?

Posted by: Hokiemom at April 01, 2018 09:17 AM (WUYxS)

32 As this is the anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa, I recommend 'With the Old Breed on Pelelieu and Okinawa" by Eugene B. Sledge.

It's regarded as the best account of what it's like to be an infantryman in combat ever written.

Posted by: J.J.

I've read that a coupla times. Sledge was a U.S.Marine.

I don't mean to correct you, JJ, but Marines get a little touchy when lumped in with infantrymen.

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 09:18 AM (rQewO)

33 "Give me the power!"

I can never forget the ad for "Wild in the Streets."

Posted by: JAS at April 01, 2018 09:19 AM (sCN2W)

34 Ah! Books.

I did a deep dive into my Kindle library and retreated into fantasy land for more than a week; no internet, no guilt-tripping, no browbeating, no gas lighting. It was wonderful re-reading old favorites and ignoring current political events and the news. My attitude was much improved.

As a result, I offer up three of my own works; character studies from my imagination.

Safari - The son of a rich man goes on Safari, goes native, and changes the local people.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/ B01E0EO4WQ

Planet of Storms - A geological survey pilot forced down in a storm, is rescued by a reclusive hermit and his trusty animal companion.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B076HNZSCX

And Little Squeak - three short character studies of my imagined Wolf Hunter Amazon Warriors and their alien companions.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTA1NQU

And a sincere thank you to all who have purchased my stories, especially to those who gave some feedback.

Ignore the news. Let your Kindle take you away.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 01, 2018 09:19 AM (roQNm)

35 OM: even though I don't think I'm losing my memory function, I find that Pratchett's "canon" is so dense, so involved, so complex, so interlocking, and so insane that I still can reread almost any one of the books and it seems like a new read. That's why I never throw away or return a Pratchett book.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 01, 2018 09:20 AM (n9EOP)

36 ...reminded me of this book, Wild in the Streets, published in 1968, which takes place in an America that has lowered the voting to some ridiculous age like 11 or 12,

"14 or Fight!!!!"*

Yep. Read it and watched the movie. Prepare for your LSD-infused Prison Camps, oldsters.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 09:20 AM (9q7Dl)

37 The second "aromaolent" usage example is wrong, since Hillary (WWNBP) did not make a concession speech on election night.

Posted by: cool breeze

Her head was in the toilet.

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 09:20 AM (rQewO)

38 I reread the Terry Pratchett books over and over and find something new every time. The man was a genius, a brilliant punster. He left us too young, with too many stories locked inside his brain due to Alzheimers. Rest In Peace, sir.

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 01, 2018 09:20 AM (PzBTm)

39 Nice bong collection on the bottom shelf there Winston.

Posted by: Snidley Whiplash at April 01, 2018 09:21 AM (UdKB7)

40 Also checked out "Deceptive Desserts: A Lady's Guide to Baking Bad!" by Christine McConnell, who's like a supermodel Lily Munster making spiffulous sci-fi and horror cakes and confections.

Do an image search on her creations. My personal favorite is the Face Hugger.

https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/peculiar-world-christine-mcconnell

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 09:21 AM (qJtVm)

41 Don't trust anyone over 15. Children, being a tabula rasa, are the perfect ones to initiate a remake of everything.

Posted by: CNN at April 01, 2018 09:22 AM (fZlu3)

42 Happy Easter. Those do look like bongs.

Classic Capt Hate post.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 01, 2018 09:23 AM (89T5c)

43 I see a _Deplorable Gourmet_ in that library!

Posted by: m at April 01, 2018 09:23 AM (U6XUk)

44 Since we're experiencing our own attempted Cultural Revolution as part of the

Shambling Undead Zombie Culture of Hillary!'s Nonexistant Presidency

just remember-

You can't spell Aromaolent without Mao.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 09:23 AM (9q7Dl)

45 Oregon Muse confessed to manipulating the library photo AND redacting Capt. Hate's review.

He IS MiniTru!!!!!

*dundun dun*

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46 Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 01, 2018 09:16 AM (hMwEB)

Thanks.
In my personal experience, this bug laid me lower than any I have ever encountered before. I didn't even have the energy to eat for about two days.Thank goodness I finally had enough sense to go to the emergency room.
As usual, daughter H appeared as an angel of mercy and helped me immensely.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 01, 2018 09:26 AM (n9EOP)

47
Yeah, we have yet to hear Hillary Clinton's concession speech. I think we've heard just about every combination of excuses for her losing, though. Like a million monkeys at a million typewriters, in which one of them will eventually type Shakespeare.

On a similarly long time-line she might eventually concede.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 01, 2018 09:27 AM (LOgQ4)

48 Another eclectic (i.e., weird) week of reading. I started "Sharpe's Tiger" because I've been enjoying the TV series. This is a tough story and Cornwell does not try to soften the fighting of the period or the attitudes of the soldiers. I'm enjoying it so far although it is the kind of writing that drives Mrs. JTB crazy. Cornwell will take a full page to describe how a rifle company goes from a column to a battle formation. I picture the moves and Mrs. JTB just wants the story to get going. I don't think I'll have to keep the books for her to read later. :-)

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:27 AM (V+03K)

49 I know little about Serbia, but it does seem that using Islam to disrupt "The West" has been part of someone's plan for a very long time. Hard to say when the "multi-culti/diversity religion" began, and with it the attack on maintaining heritage and homeland.

The Muslim world is very focused on keeping the West's influence out of their countries, even as they let a few in to pump their oil or offer them war technology. And their oil money is in our markets and our government.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 01, 2018 09:28 AM (bT8Z4)

50 since you can buy it for $11, while the Kindle edition costs a whopping $27.95.

Totally not a scam.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 01, 2018 09:28 AM (oVJmc)

51 Happy Easter to all book lovers, be they Morons or otherwise.

I bought Noonan's "What I Saw at the Revolution" ages ago but never cracked it. (Oh, how many books would fit those qualifications!) Maybe I should consider doing so.

For now, I'm finishing "The Underboss," about the FBI investigation that brought down Boston's Angiulo LCN family, and on the lighter side, I just wrapped up re-reading my Paul Levitt run of "Legion of Super-Heroes" from the early to mid-'80s.

After those, I may dive into something quite different.

May you enjoy what you read.

Posted by: Weak Geek at April 01, 2018 09:29 AM (zT4Y1)

52 Posted by: Rosasharn at April 01, 2018 09:20 AM (PzBTm)

I have enjoyed almost every Pratchett book I ever read, and have never failed to find several unbelievably laugh out loud witty sections in every one. What a loss to world humor!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 01, 2018 09:30 AM (n9EOP)

53 I did a deep dive into my Kindle library and retreated into fantasy land for more than a week; no internet, no guilt-tripping, no browbeating, no gas lighting. It was wonderful re-reading old favorites and ignoring current political events and the news. My attitude was much improved.

==

that sounds wonderful, Skandia

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 01, 2018 09:30 AM (hMwEB)

54 I got home and my library from the Old Time Book Store was waiting for me. Yipee! Man, that's a lot of knowledge. And while I was OTR, I finished "War Before Civilization" by Lawrence H. Keeley. Modern war, as horrid as it is, is better than what went before.

McGyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at April 01, 2018 09:30 AM (XpTJH)

55 JTB I've been thinking of borrowing the Sharpe tv series from the lib

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 01, 2018 09:31 AM (hMwEB)

56 John Schindler is a bit of a jerk and a rabid NeverTrumper. He was also involved in a sexting scandal (he was married at the time) and I believe had to leave Naval war College because of it. He sees Russians underneath everyone's beds, especially president Trump's, and in my estimation has lost his fvcking mind.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 01, 2018 09:06 AM (wYseH)

Thank you for that bit of insight. Somebody elsewhere made a very oblique offhand reference about Schindler and I was wondering just wtf he was talking about and you've filled in that blank. I still think the book in question is very good, perhaps in large part because DJT isn't in it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 09:31 AM (y7DUB)

57 Cornwell will take a full page to describe how a rifle company goes from a column to a battle formation. I picture the moves and Mrs. JTB just wants the story to get going. I don't think I'll have to keep the books for her to read later. :-)

Posted by: JTB

You could sprinkle sugar on the carpet and position it, so when the ants come, Mrs. JTB can see for herself. (:

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 09:32 AM (rQewO)

58 Reading The Americanization of Edward Bok as my 'physical' Library book of the month. Story of hard working Dutch boy who became a successful publisher in early 20th century. Very well written biography (& self improvement) book that reinforces the fact that things change but people don't. Also available free on kindle & Gutenberg.

It's the type of book that I stop & research referenced topics during the read. I'm not quite half way through and already added a few reads into the future book queue.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at April 01, 2018 09:33 AM (vFHFh)

59 On a similarly long time-line she might eventually concede.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic

NEVAH !

She's working on a variation of Capt. Queeg's "strawberries" soliloquy.

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 09:34 AM (rQewO)

60 Recommended on another forum, I've been reading "Gunpowder" by Jack Kelly about the development of what we now call black powder and the influence it had on societies through history. Well written and Kelly even makes the chemistry of powder understandable to this long ago voice and literature major. I'm only up to about 1400 AD in Europe so there is a lot more ahead.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:34 AM (V+03K)

61 No review of Comey's tour de force?

This is the month of Comey after all.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2018 09:34 AM (/tuJf)

62 Here's another read that will curl your hair (if any fellow Morons still have hair): For the Sake of All Living Things by John M. Del Vecchio, published in 1990. It is, in part, about the child soldiers/murderers created by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. A work of fiction, yes, but it demonstrates how easily children can be transformed by a tyrannical system.

Posted by: FIIGMO at April 01, 2018 09:36 AM (E+qJE)

63
that sounds wonderful, Skandia
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Heh. What can I say, I'm a romantic, in the old-fashioned sense of the word; heroes, heroines doing good and fighting evil. It was non-stop reading for most of a week, all of it space opera.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 01, 2018 09:36 AM (roQNm)

64 I finished "War Before Civilization" by Lawrence H. Keeley. Modern war, as horrid as it is, is better than what went before.

McGyver, Out

I got that years ago, right after I got out of grad school, via interlibrary loan, and read the introduction and conclusion, but not the main body, before I had to return it. I was impressed enough to get a copy of the book, but haven't got around to finishing it. I really wished I had run across it before completing my thesis, as it would have been useful.

I found out years later that Keeley sparked a bit of a revolution with that book, and a lot of the renewed interest in Native American warfare among academics in the last twenty years can be traced back to his influence.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 01, 2018 09:36 AM (bZ7mE)

65 Do an image search on her creations. My personal favorite is the Face Hugger.
https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/peculiar-world-christine-mcconnell

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 09:21 AM (qJtVm)

Wow. She does some wickedly cool stuff.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 09:39 AM (8EJVd)

66 Good morning and happy Easter to all Easter celebrants and a happy Sunday to the rest o' yez.

Going down to meet with our scattered kids down at Mom's this morning. Daughter's already down there, taking Mom to church which we didn't do 'cause we're ~~heathen non-church going infidels~~ home-churched.

Oh, book thread? Hm. Hm. OH! Good books: Y'know, I'll never forget the changes wrought in my life by having read Matt, Mark, Luke, and Jack. Changes that might even stick with me through eternity, if I get ~~lucky~~ ~~graced.~~ Highly recommended.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for comic at April 01, 2018 09:40 AM (Q1QrS)

67 Reagan was a closet intellectual. A particular fan of Hayek.

Back when SNL was funny, Phil Hartmann did a great skit where he went from bumbling Reagan at a press conference to a scheming mastermind in the Oval Office,

A little truth in every jest, indeed

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2018 09:41 AM (pV/54)

68 Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that as a kid.
Posted by: Infidel

Yeahfersure, thing was, plenty of kids got to say a lot. As long as they were "The Preacher's Kid," or the teacher's kid, and willing to spout whatever was in the dogma doctrine, why, the little sprout could stand up there like Marjoe Gortner and sing and dance to his heart's content. Like being president of the Luther League. Or the lead in the school play.

Come up with the "wrong" idea, back in those days, and you got sat down good and fast. At a certain point, that's how it's supposed to be. What we're seeing now is only that CPUSA is in charge of who "The Good Kids" are.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 01, 2018 09:41 AM (H5rtT)

69 Reagan's War, by Peter Sweitzer, is pretty good. It focuses on his long war against communism, and explains how virtually everything he did against Russia while in office was part of a grand strategy to bring down the USSR.

Swetzter includes some stuff from Soviet archives which demonstrate that the Soviets understood what Reagan was doing even when the American liberals couldn't figure it out.
Posted by: Grey Fox

This plus a good book on Jeane Kirkpatrick is a good primer on how American conservatives can conduct an effective foreign policy, sort of going right to Le May and bouncing the rubble.

Posted by: Jean at April 01, 2018 09:42 AM (MS0+a)

70 Good morning, 'rons and 'ronettes! Happy Easter!
Putting the final touches on Luna City #6 today, then out to the beta readers, and to get the cover designed!
I've had a busy weeks, what with finding out that Chez Hayes needs a new roof - and that for an additional small sum, the roofing contractor will also do the covered 'catio' back porch, for the resident felines to enjoy. So - other projects to tackle, like refitting the guest bathroom.
I did finish "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" - which was a slight and rather charming little novel, not certain why everyone went so ga-ga over it. I mean; good and readable and charming, but ... sigh, there are best-sellers which have confounded me even more, like 50 Shades and The DaVinci Code, which were so bad to me they were unreadable ... Perhaps it is that something even moderatly OK looks terrific by comparison.
Anyway - continuing with CW Gortner's novel about the Danish princess who married Tsar Alexander III. (Mother of Tsar Nicholas, the last ruling Romanov.) So far - OK if you like that sort of thing.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at April 01, 2018 09:42 AM (xnmPy)

71 The second was the "Sword of Honor" trilogy, probably the best novel about World War II. It's witty, hilarious at times, flawlessly written but also steeped in Waugh's Catholic faith. I was going through a rough patch when I discovered it and it unlocked wells of strength for me to get through.

Like "Casablanca," it is hard for me to overstate how awesome that books is.

One day, when I'm retired form the service, I want to write a book like that. I'm no Waugh, but I have to at least try.
Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at April 01, 2018 09:07 AM (cfSRQ)

"Sword of Honor" is indeed a great trilogy.

The hilarity of "Men at Arms" slowly giving way to the grind of the war as everything, as every illusion is stripped away from the main character until all that remains is his faith and honor is masterful. Both comic as well as heartbreaking.

A very dark comedy by Evelyn Waugh, and it served as an inspiration for my own peacetime military comedy, "Wearing the Cat".

I think you might like "WTC' if you like Waugh, but be warned it is a rather raunchy novel of redemption.

However, if you squint just right, you can see the ghost of Apthorpe and his porpoise-skin boots hovering the later chapters in Japan.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 09:42 AM (9q7Dl)

72 Posted by: FIIGMO at April 01, 2018 09:36 AM (E+qJE)

John M. Del Vecchio also wrote a good novel of the Viet Nam War. The 13th Valley.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 09:43 AM (8EJVd)

73 Yeah, we have yet to hear Hillary Clinton's concession speech. I think we've heard just about every combination of excuses for her losing, though. Like a million monkeys at a million typewriters, in which one of them will eventually type Shakespeare.

On a similarly long time-line she might eventually concede.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 01, 2018 09:27 AM (LOgQ4)

Conservative newspaper columnist, talk radio host and Trump buddy Howie Carr just published his account of the 2016 election, titled What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: cool breeze at April 01, 2018 09:43 AM (UGKMd)

74 Good morning & Happy Easter, Book Horde!

Last Sunday I went to a pop-up used book sale at a nearby brew pub. I picked up a few books: A collection of H.G. Wells horror fiction, "The Odd Day" by Copp & Peck, about life on Taiwan during Red China's attacks on the outlying islands of Matsu & Quemoy; "The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire" by Palmer; "The Candy Bombers" by Cherny, about the Berlin Airlift; "Stealing the General" by Bonds, about the Union raid to steal the Confederate train 'General' and lastly "Rogue Heroes" by MacIntyre, about WWII SAS. Not bad for $20, including a beer.

Posted by: josephistan at April 01, 2018 09:43 AM (ANIFC)

75 Just out of curiosity since "Shapre's Tiger" is the first Cornwell book I've read: Are his other series as detailed and tough as the Sharpe series? I have a bunch of them but haven't cracked them open yet.

I'm hoping his Civil War Nathaniel Starbuck series is good. Got most of them at the used book store last week.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:44 AM (V+03K)

76 Wow. She does some wickedly cool stuff.
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 09:39 AM (8EJVd)

and she's hawt in a Morticia Addams sort of vibe

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77 For those who like military history, UK bookseller Naval & Military Press is having an Easter sale this month - 20% off all titles, even clearance items. Even with hipping from across the pond, some good bargains on out of the ordinary history can be had.

www.naval-military-press.com/

Posted by: josephistan at April 01, 2018 09:46 AM (ANIFC)

78 I read Tomorrow by Darien Dibbens this week and quite liked it. Although the description indicates that it is about a time traveling dog, that is not entirely accurate. He is nearly immortal but travel through time in only one direct just like us. His master was apparently born in the 14th century and discovered a means to near immortality allowing him to live through the Thirty Years War and on through Waterloo. Much of the book deals his attempts to find meaning in life. The plot centers on the dog's attempts to find his master through the centuries when they become separated but theme is of that eternal question, what do we do now?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 09:47 AM (+y/Ru)

79 78 that sounds really cool
*puts on list*

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80 Happy Easter!

Jordan Peterson's new book arrived yesterday. I'll get to it this week.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V yay! Baseball Season is here!! at April 01, 2018 09:50 AM (H80UQ)

81 Adults should be handing out teddy bears and getting out of the way.

Posted by: Yeb! at April 01, 2018 09:52 AM (fZlu3)

82 Good morning and Happy Easter, Readers!

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 09:52 AM (MVjcR)

83 I've been reviewing various tomes and articles about shooting black powder. My wife's niece and her husband, both under 30, are coming from Fort Bragg for a visit and to be initiated into the mysteries of shooting black powder and traditional muzzleloaders. I'm really looking forward to it.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:56 AM (V+03K)

84 83 I've been reviewing various tomes and articles about shooting black powder. My wife's niece and her husband, both under 30, are coming from Fort Bragg for a visit and to be initiated into the mysteries of shooting black powder and traditional muzzleloaders. I'm really looking forward to it.
Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:56 AM (V+03K)

I'm looking forward to doing that when i visit Colonial Williamsburg later this year

Posted by: josephistan at April 01, 2018 09:57 AM (ANIFC)

85 71: I ordered the Waugh trilogy as a single volume. I plan to pass it on to my husband to get him to take a break from relentless WSJ reading.

Posted by: CN at April 01, 2018 10:00 AM (5gaNQ)

86 Posted by: mindful webworker - click for comic at April 01, 2018 09:40 AM (Q1QrS)

That comic is good stuff.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 10:01 AM (8EJVd)

87 the FBI investigation

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I have begun Dean Koontz's The Silent Corner. A theme concerns the general disintegration of our society. At one point the protagonist muses that the FBI is the one law enforcement agency that people still trust. The book was published only last year but probably written in 2016. Boy, what a difference a couple of years make!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 10:02 AM (+y/Ru)

88 Not to get in a rut with war and weapons books, I've been enjoying Winnie the Pooh stories and Peter Rabbit as well. (Figure there's an Easter Bunny connection there.) The writing is cute, often clever, and enjoyable. But the illustrations are wonderful. Beatrix Potter was excellent.

Too be read soon, "Alice in Wonderland" stories with the original illustrations.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 10:03 AM (V+03K)

89 May be CNN and Democrats should read "Lord of the flies" to understand can of worm they are opening

Posted by: redmonkey at April 01, 2018 10:04 AM (2R6mJ)

90 "Sword of Honor" is indeed a great trilogy.

The hilarity of "Men at Arms" slowly giving way to the grind of the
war as everything, as every illusion is stripped away from the main
character until all that remains is his faith and honor is masterful.
Both comic as well as heartbreaking.

A very dark comedy by Evelyn Waugh, and it served as an inspiration for my own peacetime military comedy, "Wearing the Cat".

I think you might like "WTC' if you like Waugh, but be warned it is a rather raunchy novel of redemption.

However, if you squint just right, you can see the ghost of Apthorpe
and his porpoise-skin boots hovering the later chapters in Japan.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 09:42 AM (9q7Dl)

I will have to check that out. I've made some notes for my own memoir, but every time I start writing, I imagine the Article 15 that will result when my chain of command finds out about it.

Part of what spoke to me about "Sword of Honor" is that like Waugh, I'm a Catholic convert and when war comes and you're in middle age, you see it differently than a youth. I related to Crouchback in a way I wouldn't have done had I read it as a teenager. Of course in my case, I was young when the present war started and I'm likely to age out before it ends!

Ah well, time to get ready for mass. Happy Easter everyone!

Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at April 01, 2018 10:04 AM (cfSRQ)

91 She tells how it felt to burn family photographs and treasured heirlooms so they would not be used as evidence of their failure to repudiate a "black"--i.e., land-owning--past.

This is why I think that there is no coming back from Communism. A society is permanently crippled when so much history and culture is erased, not to mention the lost knowledge of the people who are killed.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 10:04 AM (sdi6R)

92 Can anyone recommend a book on the six day war?

Posted by: Infidel at April 01, 2018 10:06 AM (a3OL0)

93 Those media potato-heads think the Cultural Revolution was a good thing.

Posted by: aelfheld at April 01, 2018 10:06 AM (Zy9Yy)

94 and she's hawt in a Morticia Addams sort of vibe
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Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 10:06 AM (8EJVd)

95 Happy Easter everyone! Don't have anything to add on the book front, just that.

Posted by: T at April 01, 2018 10:06 AM (Vgw1E)

96 Am over half through American Sanctuary by A. Roger Ekirch and it effectively shows how immigration and naturalization have always been hot button issues in the country, although back then it was more about the questionable willingness to assimilate of the Irish and French hellraisers. Back then the open borders crowd, unlike the current Gas Chamber cheap labor jizz swillers, were all about freedom and maybe (this is my thought and not Ekirch's, although maybe he provoked it) the founders weren't more specific about it because they knew there was no way to reach concensus on it.

He's now showing how the aftermath of turning over Jonathan Robbins, who may or not have been a US citizen impressed by the Brits, over for a Brit sea trial and hanging, was a major fuckup by John Adams being misled by his Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and a political disaster for the Federalist Party. Ekirch provides the facts very effectively but as a vivid narrator he just doesn't make things come alive in dealing with overriding issues like Jay Winick weaves a tale. That's a subjective attitude and like some black robed tyrant said about porn "I know it when I see it" but I'd be remiss in not stating that.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 10:07 AM (y7DUB)

97 It's been a while but I read Peggy Noonan's book on Reagan when it came out. I remember it was OK but not great. Seems to me the best writing about Reagan was his own words. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he was an excellent writer.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 10:07 AM (V+03K)

98 This is why I think that there is no coming back from Communism. A society is permanently crippled when so much history and culture is erased, not to mention the lost knowledge of the people who are killed.
Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 10:04 AM (sdi6R)

Fortunately that would never happen in our country.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 01, 2018 10:08 AM (8EJVd)

99 I picked up a copy of The Spike, per the horde, it has too much dirty, hippie sex to read on Easter Sunday - but I'll dive back in next week.

Posted by: Jean at April 01, 2018 10:09 AM (MS0+a)

100 ...got a recommendation from Captain Hate last week that looks interesting, but I have to clean up the language a bit...

Hmmm. How to react?

A. How dare you redact a single syllable of that great poet's work?

B. Had to clean up Hate's speech? There's a shock!

C. That was really funny, O'Muse.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at April 01, 2018 10:11 AM (Q1QrS)

101 We need common sense gun control like in Europe.oh look,London murder rate beats NY as stabbings surge....

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/292869/

Posted by: steevy at April 01, 2018 10:12 AM (LiyEm)

102 the questionable willingness to assimilate of the Irish and French hellraisers

They didn't even try with scots-Irish, just pointed us west to the Appalachians and said keep walking.

Posted by: Jean at April 01, 2018 10:12 AM (MS0+a)

103 Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa, actually started one week earlier when the US Navy and the 77th Infantry Division seized Kerama Retto which is about 20 miles from Okinawa.

On March 26th the destroyer USS Kimberley was granted a foretaste of what the cans and the rest of the US Pacific Fleet would endure for the rest of the invasion when leaving Kerama Retto and spotting two Japanese planes, the ship was struck despite intense AA fire by an Aichi Type 99 Val dive bomber on a kamikaze mission. The resulting explosion wiped out a 40mm mount, disabled two 5-inch 38 guns, and ship's complement was reduced by 18%. Luckily the ship survived.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 10:12 AM (PMIYQ)

104 Reading Rex Stout's "The Doorbell Rang" for the GoodReads group this month. I've probably read about half the Nero Wolfe books and this one is one of the best for my taste.

On Amazon, I came across a hardcover edition of seven Nero Wolfe stories that I haven't read. Long out of print but used copies are out there. Mine should arrive in a week or two.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 10:17 AM (V+03K)

105 I read "More Beautiful Than Before" last night. I believe it was recommended here last week. It's a useful book, although I have a few minor quibbles with it. (I really dislike attempts to put Islam on the same footing as Judiasm and Christianity. They are not equivalent)

I picked up a copy of Kitchen Sonnets by Ethel Romig Fuller. It's a book of poetry from the 30s, sweet little poems about keeping house and raising kids. I saw it in the closed stacks at the library a couple of years ago and took pictures of some poems with my phone. I looked at them again recently and decided it would be a nice book to have. There was a time when it was common to use poetry like this to fill in spaces in newspapers and magazines. We were a more literate people back then.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 01, 2018 10:20 AM (Lqy/e)

106 Okay. First off, thanks OM for including the shot of the library. It's a pretty dark room and needed the lightening.
Second, no bongs. My late partner Karen was kind of OCD about having flashlights everywhere, Me, not so much but somehow they migrated to the bookshelf. Pipes and pipe tobacco are readily at hand. I am a tad surprised that no one picked up the cigar boxes. If there is ever a Northwest meet up I'll bring a bunch. The bourbon is in a cabinet in the kitchen. I'm able to carry the glass of it into this room.
I love the book thread, and am even wearing pants. Hard to see but sitting on top of the Deplorable Gourmet is a tiny collection of Indian, not red dot, recipes for locally found items. Death Camas by the way is aptly named.

Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:21 AM (wgCUV)

107 Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone else has read this. It might be OOP and there was only one copy available in the entire Cleveland public library since this wouldn't be of interest to most of the and butters who use the system.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

I hope the black boxes don't mess up the formatting here...

Anyhoo, I haven't read the book yet, but it's been sitting on my shelf for a few years now. If I recall, there was some question as to whether the author, Schindler, who had a fine reputation up to that point, might have employed some shoddy research/scholarship.

I wanted to read it, because the topic was interesting to me, but it's still sitting there... for some reason. And when I've gotten this far in life sorta trusting my own instincts on what to read and what not to read.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:23 AM (Pz4pT)

108 Rickl your comment about Communism reminds me of something that was put forward about a decade ago in regards to Islam. That the Library of Alexandria never was reconstituted after Egypt was conquered by the Muslims was because there were no other libraries left to pull texts from due to Islam conquering them.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 10:24 AM (PMIYQ)

109 >>> I am a tad surprised that no one picked up the cigar boxes.

I found the hidden Camel!

Posted by: fluffy at April 01, 2018 10:25 AM (cHbmY)

110 This is why I think that there is no coming back from Communism.

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Putin is proof that the Russians have learned to love the whip.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 10:26 AM (+y/Ru)

111 I'm reading Moira Greyland's book about her mother Marion Zimmer Bradley, founder of the SCA and author of Mists of Avalon. Moira grew up around pedophiles and weirdos in the San Francisco area. Her story reminds me of some of the stories Zombie has mentioned about growing up in that area.

Posted by: David Hogg's angry little face at April 01, 2018 10:26 AM (YIO84)

112 Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:21 AM (wgCUV)
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I blowed up the pic and see the cigar boxes and TDG! Thanks for buying the book. We've sold about 2,300 copies and made $5,000 in donations.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:27 AM (MVjcR)

113 My dad was a Camel cigarette smoker, with this crowd one needs to be specific. Pipes also. The cigar hobby is my own vice.

Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:28 AM (wgCUV)

114 I was attending a wedding last night, so i missed the movie thread, but-

I saw "The Exorcist" mentioned.

The book "The Exorcist" as well as the movie was the first time (I think) that NY/H'wood gave a genre(ie horror) novel/movie the full-scale literary treatment.

The interesting thing is that it also represented a kind of cultural highpoint with Blatty's depiction of faith and the belief in an ordered universe. Plus, Christianity favorably portrayed.

Huge best seller.

But...then Stephen King happened.

His hugely best-selling horror is set in a Godlesss Universe.

Supernatural/otherworldly stuff happens but for the most part it's bad and mostly random.

Sort of like winning the Lottery O'Horror.

Any portrayal of traditional religion and particularly Christianity is negative and useless and dangerous, if not outright evil.

and obviously, King's view is the view which won culturally.

Actually, I suppose it's Lovecraft's view of the Universe, but King is his most successful disciple.

Another guy who tried to use his books as a cultural sledgehammer against Christianity/God is the guy who wrote the "His Dark Matters" trilogy but he was quite a bit less successful. Does anybody read him at all anymore?

He had his moment of Leftard Usefulness and then it was gone.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 10:28 AM (9q7Dl)

115 Weasel! 2300 books is remarkable! The donations are a blessing from the Horde to good people in need.

Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:29 AM (wgCUV)

116 108 Rickl your comment about Communism reminds me of something that was put forward about a decade ago in regards to Islam. That the Library of Alexandria never was reconstituted after Egypt was conquered by the Muslims was because there were no other libraries left to pull texts from due to Islam conquering them.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 10:24 AM (PMIYQ)

That also suggest why Commies seem to have such an affinity for Muslims. Birds of a feather. I still say that each regards the other as "useful idiots".

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 10:29 AM (sdi6R)

117 That comic is good stuff.
Posted by: Jake Holenhead
Gracias. The greatest story ever is a good inspiration. Always swipe from the best!

Like the author who must always ask, "Which Shakespeare work am I doing this time?"

Posted by: mindful webworker - pandemonium! at April 01, 2018 10:32 AM (Q1QrS)

118 115 Weasel! 2300 books is remarkable! The donations are a blessing from the Horde to good people in need.
Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:29 AM (wgCUV)
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It sure is! The Horde is amazing. Although sales have slowed to one or two books a day, we will continue to make donations on a quarterly basis while maintaining a small operating reserve to keep the enterprise going.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:33 AM (MVjcR)

119 Reagan, In His Own Words was excellent. No matter how highly you regard Reagan, you've internalized at least some MFM propaganda and you'll be shocked at how prolific and full of wide-ranging thought he was.

Posted by: t-bird at April 01, 2018 10:35 AM (TUE05)

120 Walden Shock - Mark Robins.
Almost done and enjoying it, with one HUGE exception.
Mark, Mark, Mark. For EVERY use of the possessive pronoun, you have used IT'S instead of ITS!
Here's a tip:
Personal possessive pronouns are all the same.
His
Hers
Theirs
Yours
Ours
Its

IT'S is a contraction of IT IS.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 10:35 AM (SHf7F)

121 How did Evelyn Waugh ungay himself? That's not possible.

Posted by: Adam Rippon at April 01, 2018 10:36 AM (fZlu3)

122 we will continue to make donations on a quarterly basis while maintaining a small operating reserve to keep the enterprise going.
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:33 AM (MVjcR)

Prague Assassins' Widows and Orphans fund?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 01, 2018 10:36 AM (y87Qq)

123 Cornwell will take a full page to describe how a
rifle company goes from a column to a battle formation. I picture the
moves and Mrs. JTB just wants the story to get going. I don't think I'll
have to keep the books for her to read later. :-)

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:27 AM

That is one of the things I like most about Cornwell. The action is integral to the story and IMO, cannot be told without it. His descriptions of shield walls in battle in the Uhtred books are brutal and glorious.

Posted by: huerfano at April 01, 2018 10:36 AM (EtMVh)

124 Possibly as a strong reaction to the constant bombardment of BS news stories, I find I'm reading more poetry. Sometimes it is remembering a line that leads to the whole poem, like Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written In a Country Church-Yard". But I keep copies of Shakespeare's Sonnets and the complete poetry of Tennyson handy, to dip into for a few minutes or hours. I should expand the number of selections.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 10:37 AM (V+03K)

125 Welcome to the Cultural Revolution!

First it was Confederate monuments. Now statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple across the U.S.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 10:39 AM (+y/Ru)

126 As anyone could guess still working on The Ionian Mission from the Aubrey/ Maturin series. They are very good, now if only I could go into a bank vault have the world go kablooey and emerged unscathed then I would have all the time in the world.

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 10:39 AM (aC6Sd)

127 Going OT, and bringing it around, sort of:

I watched the movie "Hail, Caesar!" yesterday.

Do people know what this movie is? Really??

I had no idea what I was watching until well into it, and I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I swear, it's the single most subversive film in my lifetime. Subversive in a way that Hollywood seems to have completely missed.

The most incredible thing about it, they got George Clooney to recite much of the dialogue that pretty much skewers pretentious blowhards like George Clooney! And had him stand there and get slapped around for it!

Oh my golly, I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. And appropriately, it's an Easter movie! With a GENUINE Christian message!! Sitting right there under the noses of the people who worked on it, without them knowing they were doing it.

I figured the Coen brothers are Jewish, so that's interesting. Especially when there is a scene that features, in a wonderful "A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister walk into a Hollywood boardroom" joke, played out, with the Rabbi being the most cynical of the group. Not the butt of the joke, just... cynical.

Anyhoo, I have to watch that thing again. I need to make sure I didn't miss something. It's brilliant. And I can't believe they made it. Right there. In Hollywood. And if any reviewers say (I don't know if they did), that it's anti-movie industry, it's not. The writers drive much of the plot, and they come off as hypocrites, and naive fools, more than anything else.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:40 AM (Pz4pT)

128 Been reading a great history of the Ancient Rome, which I have read embarrassing little of about so it is more a summary of some of the more well known leaders. Favorite so far is Hadrian, who was very popular r and talented in arts, music and architecture. Best story is he decided he was going to do the design for a new temple to Venus and as a courtesy he submitted it to the most well know architect in the empire, some artsy type from a wealthy family, who decided he didn't like the columns and was very openly critical of them. Hadrian had him put to death and built the temple as he had designed.

I wish we had him around to deal with our cultural elite.

Posted by: Ripley at April 01, 2018 10:41 AM (NbRJx)

129 Ah book thread. I polished off the last bit of 3 men in a boat and read Blake Smith's Kingdom of Glass and Swan Knights son by John C Wright. I think the John C Wright book would be appealing to boys. Our young squire gets a bear named Bruno to give him his first knightly training. I felt I got reasonable entertainment but It didn't grab my 29 year old ette self. OTOH I loved the Kingdom of Glass book. I'm trying to work up a good review for it that will do it justice w/o spoilers.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at April 01, 2018 10:41 AM (84F5k)

130 Actually, I suppose it's Lovecraft's view of the Universe, but King is his most successful disciple.

He had his moment of Leftard Usefulness and then it was gone.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 10:28 AM (9q7Dl)

Is there evidence that Lovecraft's fiction represented his view of the Universe? I always just assumed he was telling campfire stories, not pontificating on anything deeper.

King, based on his public comments, is a sneering, marrow deep Liberal/Dem/Marxist who seems to view small town America as the scene if not the source of some very messed up stuff.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 01, 2018 10:42 AM (tMFgx)

131 I am a tad surprised that no one picked up the
cigar boxes.

Posted by: Winston at April 01, 2018 10:21 AM (wgCUV)

I saw them. As soon as I saw the pipes I knew there was more. lol
I have a humidor on my book shelves. It seems like a natural habitat.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 10:42 AM (aMlLZ)

132 114 I remember watching something,I think a documentary about horror movies,and John Landis made some snide remark about The Exorcist like "a Catholic priest as the hero instead of chasing little boys" or something to that effect.I had liked John Landis up to that point...

Posted by: steevy at April 01, 2018 10:43 AM (LiyEm)

133 122 we will continue to make donations on a quarterly basis while maintaining a small operating reserve to keep the enterprise going.
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:33 AM (MVjcR)

Prague Assassins' Widows and Orphans fund?
Posted by: hogmartin at April 01, 2018 10:36 AM (y87Qq)
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Ha! Nope, we created a 501(c)4 entity, Deplorables Global Initiative, Inc. to hold the copyright. Speaking of which. I'm expecting to get the official certificate from the Copyright Office soon and will ask CBD to post it on the food thread.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:43 AM (MVjcR)

134 Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 09:27 AM

I think I would like to get into the Sharpe series, it actually is more up my line of study/reading. Have 1 read and did see a few ( Sharpe's Tiger) at the used book store. I do have a battalion of the 95th in miniature just because of the tv series.

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 10:43 AM (aC6Sd)

135 Lovercraft was certainly an atheist and quite anti religion.

Posted by: steevy at April 01, 2018 10:44 AM (LiyEm)

136 Because of personal interest I've read a number of books on the Great Cultural Revolution in China. I find the the children's war, combined with SJW insanity frighteningly similar.
When will the manipulated children start storming into the houses of people accused of wrong to physically harass and break and confiscate stuff.
I realize a lot of their would be victims are armed.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:45 AM (nBr1j)

137 "I watched the movie "Hail, Caesar!" yesterday."

I love the Coens, and so does my family. But we all have a few we don't like, but they're all different.

I loved Hail, Caesar!. It actually shows a Commie ring including Hollywood playwrights. The Horror!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2018 10:46 AM (pV/54)

138 Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:40 AM (Pz4pT)

Check out "Barton Fink" for another Coen Bros movie with a similar outlook on Hollywood.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 10:46 AM (9q7Dl)

139 Just received Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules, after all of its mentions here, and read the first chapter. Ooh, boy, I have a feeling this book might hit very deeply. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: t-bird at April 01, 2018 10:49 AM (rdU0H)

140 Lovercraft was certainly an atheist and quite anti religion.
Posted by: steevy at April 01, 2018 10:44 AM (LiyEm)

Lovercraft sounds like an updated version of the Kama Sutra,

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:49 AM (nBr1j)

141 I loved Hail, Caesar!. It actually shows a Commie ring including Hollywood playwrights. The Horror!
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2018 10:46 AM (pV/54)

Doesn't just show them, shows them to be pretentious hypocrites. And the scene with the rowboat... just brilliant.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:51 AM (Pz4pT)

142 Is there evidence that Lovecraft's fiction represented his view of the Universe? I always just assumed he was telling campfire stories, not pontificating on anything deeper.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 01, 2018 10:42 AM (tMFgx)

Not sure about his views on Nameless Horrors and Eldritch Vistas and all that, but any time HPL opined on the filthy and degenerate mongrel races, dude was serious as the grave. He was New England WASPy xenophobic, not in the weaksauce "I'll call my opponent racist so then I automatically win" way but in the highly-enriched weapons-grade xenophobic way.

Which makes it hilarious to picture him working his frail little self into an anti-immigrant snit and his wife (a very successful Jewish woman born in Ukraine) patiently rolling her eyes and patting him on the head to calm him down.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 01, 2018 10:51 AM (y87Qq)

143 BTW I've mentioned the possibility of writing a book about Faye and my experience with grief. I'm plugging away starting with journaling. And getting a tattoo.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:52 AM (nBr1j)

144 Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:40 AM (Pz4pT)

Check out "Barton Fink" for another Coen Bros movie with a similar outlook on Hollywood.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 10:46 AM (9q7Dl)

I've watched it twice. I liked it better then second time I watched it, but it's not quite sure what it wants to be, I think.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:52 AM (Pz4pT)

145 Hiya Horde!
Speaking of libraries and books and things--of possible interest to Moron authors, you can look up what libraries have your books using www.worldcat.org (The stupid interface wants a zip code to display all the libraries, but it doesn't care which one). There's library in the Netherlands with some of my books!

Also I turned 29 again recently and was gifted the complete Far Side collection. It weighs about 30 pounds and I'm thinking of getting one of those book stands like they use for the Oxford dictionary or the Book of Kells. Then I can turn over a page a day for erudition!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (L59/U)

146 I'm plugging away starting with journaling. And getting a tattoo.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:52 AM (nBr1j)

Whats next, a sports car? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (aMlLZ)

147 OT, but they have tightened up the prediction for Tiangong-1's demise. It's now 00:10 UT on April 2, +-2.5 hours, which translates to 8:10 pm EDT tonight.

http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png

The orbital tracks show a small chance of it coming down over China. The US is in the clear. There was a pass overhead at my location at 9:40 am, but I didn't see it because a) it's daytime, and 2) it's cloudy.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (sdi6R)

148 Galen Rowell!
Great nature photog. His demise is a parable of many things.

Posted by: Burger Chef at April 01, 2018 10:55 AM (RuIsu)

149 We brought back a few bins that had been packed up. My husband said, "We have three bins of cookbooks?" It didn't even include the Deplorable Gourmet, which is in another bin somewhere. I am really ready for the getting the house ready to sell phase to be over.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 01, 2018 10:55 AM (Lqy/e)

150 146 I'm plugging away starting with journaling. And getting a tattoo.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:52 AM (nBr1j)

Whats next, a sports car? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (aMlLZ)

I don't have any sports cars on my wish list. Maybe a world wide shithole tour.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:55 AM (nBr1j)

151 Probably already mentioned, but I thought Steven Hayward's "The Age of Reagan" was quite good.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 01, 2018 10:56 AM (l9m7l)

152 Is there evidence that Lovecraft's fiction represented his view of the Universe? I always just assumed he was telling campfire stories, not pontificating on anything deeper.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 01, 2018 10:42 AM (tMFgx)

Mrs. Muse and I have a longtime friend who told us a friend of hers wrote her masters' thesis on Lovecraft and she claimed just that, i.e. that all the stuff about the elder gods he wrote about he actually believed.

(Which would be like claiming that Tolkien really believed there used to be elves, dwarves, orcs, ents, and hobbits roaming the earth.)

I have never seen any evidence for the claims made about Lovecraft in this thesis, which was written a long time ago and we don't know anything about it, other than our friend's claims that it exists.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at April 01, 2018 10:57 AM (jlKn3)

153 The orbital tracks show a small chance of it coming down over China. The US is in the clear.
Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (sdi6R)

Santa is not going to bring a free Chicom RTG down my chimney?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 01, 2018 10:57 AM (y87Qq)

154 I don't have any sports cars on my wish list. Maybe a world wide shithole tour.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:55 AM (nBr1j)

So, a rickshaw then? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 10:57 AM (aMlLZ)

155 Happy birthday Sabrina Chase. Far Side, yum.

Knowing what my literary fame is, I could search for Golden Isis on there with any zip code and find zero hits.

And for those trying to sell off excess books to downsize the library, do not go to this site. The prices book buyers offer are quite depressing. I know it says textbooks but you can enter any ISBN and will get hits, even for Japanese animation art books.

https://bookscouter.com/

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 10:58 AM (PMIYQ)

156 A child's nightmare unfolds in Jiang's chronicle of the excesses of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1960s. She was a young teenager at the height of the fervor, when children rose up against their parents, students against teachers, and neighbor against neighbor in an orgy of doublespeak, name-calling, and worse. Intelligence was suspect, and everyone was exhorted to root out the "Four Olds"--old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

This is what Commissar Hogg, his ilk and their puppet masters want

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 01, 2018 10:59 AM (SiINZ)

157 So lower Michigan is in the clear from getting any more Chinese junk. Now if it hits Beijing I might have to take a swig to toast some epic Schadenfraud.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:00 AM (PMIYQ)

158 Also I turned 29 again recently and was gifted the complete Far Side collection. It weighs about 30 pounds and I'm thinking of getting one of those book stands like they use for the Oxford dictionary or the Book of Kells. Then I can turn over a page a day for erudition!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at April 01, 2018 10:53 AM (L59/U)

Congrats on turning 29!

I haven't thought about Larson in years. His Amazon blurb reads:

"Gary Larson lives in Oregon with his wife and a Big dog. Although retired from his job as a daily syndicated cartoonist, he is now turning his graphical talent to new forms of technology."

New forms of technology? What new forms of technology!!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (Pz4pT)

159 154 I don't have any sports cars on my wish list. Maybe a world wide shithole tour.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 10:55 AM (nBr1j)

So, a rickshaw then? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 10:57 AM (aMlLZ)

That might just work.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (nBr1j)

160 If OMuse or any cobs are hanging around, or even his magnificence, Ace, himself, I have an idea.
Much like The James Madison does a weekly movie post, I would be willing to do a weekly Pedantic Post for the Proletariat concerning common grammar and spelling errors (Lord knows I've made enough over the years). And as a retired Word Smythe, I've seen young associates make every mistake in and out of the book.
I'd even throw in common malapropisms, e.g. "That's a mute point."
And I'd probably make enough mistakes in writing the posts that it would subject me to the finely tuned mocking of the Horde.
It's versus Its, dammit!

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (SHf7F)

161 I should rewatch Barton Fink because it's been a long time but I remember really enjoying it at the time. I guess I need to see Hail, Caesar as well; any movie that has that razor cut pretty boy hilljack, Clooney, inadvertently mocking his entire persona is something to be savored.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (y7DUB)

162 So lower Michigan is in the clear from getting any
more Chinese junk. Now if it hits Beijing I might have to take a swig to
toast some epic Schadenfraud.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:00 AM (PMIYQ)

Hell yeah, I would crack open a bottle of the good stuff, and if I didn't have any I would go get some.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 11:03 AM (aMlLZ)

163 Science and history twitter have made last week David Reich week on account of the publication of 'Who Are Are and How We Got Here'. This sums up the last few years of research into genetics, in particular recently-recovered ancient DNA.

During the Ice Age, the human races looked a LOT different from the way they look now. A Sardinian farmer would consider a Danish hunter-gatherer to be a savage and an "Ancient North Eurasian" as something like a Comanche.

Today the Sardinians are still there, but the European hunter-gatherers are basically all dead and the Ancient North Eurasians have blended into other races: Indo-Europeans like the English, and... Native Americans.

Excellent book until page 250 or so, when Reich starts acting like a dick. I'll leave that to Twitter, or to WestHunt.wordpress.Com.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:03 AM (6FqZa)

164 I have a friend who proudly displays his library on a shelf atop his bar. It consists of a 60's edition of W. H. B. Smith's "Small Arms of the World", his bootcamp Guidebook for Marines, and a Bible. He claims to be pretty well covered.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 01, 2018 11:03 AM (xzqr4)

165
I've watched it twice. I liked it better then second time I watched it, but it's not quite sure what it wants to be, I think.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:52 AM (Pz4pT)

I'm sure the Coen Bros are some flavor of leftist, but way too smart to fall for the usual retarded claptrap of marxism.

"Barton Fink", I believe, is at heart a rather pointed criticism of the intellectual leftist.

BF gets his ticket to Hollywood based on a "gritty, realistic" kitchen sink play, which is nothing more than a bunch of cardboard characters spouting commie drivel.

BF has no experience of life as it's actually lived by most people, so

once in hollywood. All he can do is repeat the same old marxist unrealistic crap, even when assigned to average joe entertainment style movies.

Reality comes knocking at his door, so to speak, in various ways,

until it finally kicks down the door and attempts to burn his life to the ground.

BF survives his encounter with harsh reality, but-

and here's the important part

-does he learn from the experience?

Nope.

He goes back to his dreams.

He rejects the lessons of the real for what he wants to believe.

Sound like any leftists you might know?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 11:05 AM (9q7Dl)

166 One thing Reich does is force us to throw away old books like Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" (2011, or 2014). It now reads like a collection of just-so stories. Although it is still worthwhile in discussing human inventions like (say) literacy, where genetics doesn't apply and they can just use the material evidence or written records.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:06 AM (6FqZa)

167 It sure is! The Horde is amazing. Although sales have slowed to one or two books a day, we will continue to make donations on a quarterly basis while maintaining a small operating reserve to keep the enterprise going.
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 10:33 AM (MVjcR)

Weasel, describe "small".
Basic ammo load-out small?

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 11:06 AM (SHf7F)

168 He rejects the lessons of the real for what he wants to believe.

Sound like any leftists you might know?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 11:05 AM (9q7Dl)

Um...all of them?
What do I win? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 11:07 AM (aMlLZ)

169 I think Naturalfake just described every fanatic of any stripe also.

Doubling down on the cause and all that.

Are you listening there L'ttle Hogg.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:08 AM (PMIYQ)

170 165
"Barton Fink", I believe, is at heart a rather pointed criticism of the intellectual leftist.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 11:05 AM (9q7Dl)

Yep, that's how it struck me as well.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 11:09 AM (sdi6R)

171 Just a drive-by. Currently in Helena, MT, on my way home from Arizona. Will be home tonight, with two cartons of books from Lindsay Publications in the Suburban with me. Lots of good reading ahead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 01, 2018 11:09 AM (r0bHR)

172 157: Hooray for Michigan (as a former Michigander, myself). I was pulling for a smack on Ottawa, myself. Trudeau could use more bad publicity

Posted by: CN at April 01, 2018 11:10 AM (5gaNQ)

173 Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome argues that city folk historically did NOT eat worse than hunter-gatherers, contrary to memes (and to Harari). Trademen could import the stuff which couldn't be got on subsistence farms. Also subsistence farms were (famously) noneconomic in an imperial environment. YO, DO YOU EVEN GRACCHI?

Nah, the reason Romans were shorter than Danes is because Romans are shorter than Danes. Duh! YO, DO YOU EVEN GENE?

Also, disease had a major impact. Roman sanitation was good but not good enough, especially during the summers. Disease load at a young age can stunt growth. Especially something horrible like Cyprian's Plague in the third century, which could well have been Ebola or summat like it.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:10 AM (6FqZa)

174 Alberta Oil Peon

Godspeed you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 01, 2018 11:10 AM (hyuyC)

175 George Clooney to recite much of the dialogue that pretty much skewers pretentious blowhards like George Clooney!

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The scene where he explains Das Kapital to the studio boss is hilarious:

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

176 Safe travels AoP and pleasurable reading.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:12 AM (PMIYQ)

177 105: This sounds right up my alley. I miss those days. Sweet poems and nice stories about the little trials and victories of life far outshine the horrors of modern literature with its nihilism and cruel scenarios

Posted by: CN at April 01, 2018 11:12 AM (5gaNQ)

178 I should rewatch Barton Fink because it's been a long time but I remember really enjoying it at the time. I guess I need to see Hail, Caesar as well; any movie that has that razor cut pretty boy hilljack, Clooney, inadvertently mocking his entire persona is something to be savored.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (y7DUB)

The part I don't quite get is how they got Clooney to do it. Did he not know he was essentially playing himself?

Maybe it's possible to watch that movie, and see something completely different, but there were precisely two "major" characters in the film who come off looking good, if flawed. The one is a Christian family man. The other is a rather simple hick from the sticks, who happens to be in Hollywood because he's good with a rope and can sing a little.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 11:12 AM (Pz4pT)

179 So if a rickshaw spills over, would that be a rick roll?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:13 AM (PMIYQ)

180 We lost our internet access for a couple of days this past week. Nothing terrible but it did curb my "gee, I need to look up this weird idea I just had" impulses. These moments are frequent.

Got me thinking. Is there an encyclopedia that is worth having, possibly from the 1930s or 40s? (This is all theory since we don't have space for a set of encyclopedias.) I figure something like that, the OED, the old style Roget's Thesaurus, and a recent World Alamanac would cover a lot if the internet went down for some reason.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 11:13 AM (V+03K)

181 I expect that in about 25 years we'll be seeing books by people reflecting on the cultural revolution and how they got manipulated into participating and believing in things that just weren't true.
There won't be many because only a handful are intelligent enough to think their way out of the matrix but there will be some if they can still publish wrong thought.
I doubt Hogg boy is intelligent enough to ever realize he's been manipulated.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 01, 2018 11:14 AM (nBr1j)

182 Sound like any leftists you might know?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2018 11:05 AM (9q7Dl)

Oh yes, it's clear what they're doing in the film. It's just... somewhat claustrophobic, and hyperbolic in its.. well, in how John Goodman is essentially a whirlwind of reality for our poor, naive hero.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 11:15 AM (Pz4pT)

183 If we are passing out sports cars make mine a 2018 McLaren 570S,
silver please

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:16 AM (aC6Sd)

184 I probably got way too many books. Asshole that I am, I talked the wife into keeping her college text books all the way up to her masters classes. I thought at the time they might be good reference, but seeing what colleges have evolved to I probably ended up with a few storage bins of indoctrination. I might have to borrow my brothers panzer wrap and have a little burning.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 11:16 AM (aMlLZ)

185 175 George Clooney to recite much of the dialogue that pretty much skewers pretentious blowhards like George Clooney!
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

Undoubtedly, George Clooney does not think of himself as a pretentious Hollywood blowhard, and so would it would not naturally occur to him that those lines apply to him.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at April 01, 2018 11:16 AM (jlKn3)

186 JTB, not tried these blokes out yet. But supposedly can search the entire 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:16 AM (PMIYQ)

187 George Martin is pretty-obviously trying to be an agnostic Tolkien. Tolkien's elves and men map to Celts and Celt-allied Saxons, arranged against Orcs and Easterlings who map to Saracens.

Martin is hewing to 1995-2005 genetics: the First Men are European hunter-gatherers, the Andals are the Near Eastern farmers, and the Targaryens are the IndoEuropeans. Back then it was thought that the farmers mostly replaced the hunters, and that the IndoEuropeans just knocked off the ruling class. (The Children of the Forest would then be Neanders but only as the Irish remembered them, not as they really were.)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:17 AM (6FqZa)

188 181: Isn't the little Hogg an atheist to boot? There is no eventual consequence for lying and destruction of culture, so he's just double down

Posted by: CN at April 01, 2018 11:17 AM (5gaNQ)

189 Got me thinking. Is there an encyclopedia that is worth having, possibly from the 1930s or 40s? (This is all theory since we don't have space for a set of encyclopedias.) I figure something like that, the OED, the old style Roget's Thesaurus, and a recent World Alamanac would cover a lot if the internet went down for some reason.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 11:13 AM (V+03K

PJ O'Rourke extolls the virtues of the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittannica.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at April 01, 2018 11:18 AM (jlKn3)

190 Those media potato-heads urging us to listen the likes of David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez for policy prescriptions really need to think about what they're asking.

Oh, they know *EXACTLY* what they're asking. They are aiming for *EXACTLY* the same result.
And they deserve the same fate as tyrants everywhere.
sic semper tyrannus

Posted by: GWB at April 01, 2018 11:19 AM (exmX5)

191 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

This book introduced me to both of these great authors. I have read and re-read all of their works, and am a better person for it.

Posted by: Aeric at April 01, 2018 11:20 AM (ZbgGv)

192 I have the 1969 Encyclopaedia Brittanica that my parents bought when I was a kid. That should still be good, as it was before historical revisionism and political correctness took hold.

I've mentioned before that it was the 200th anniversary edition and came with a reproduction of the first edition, published in three volumes from 1769 to (I think) 1771. That is a fascinating glimpse of the world on the very cusp of the Industrial Revolution. You can find them at AbeBooks and Alibris.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 11:21 AM (sdi6R)

193 Those media potato-heads urging us to listen the
likes of David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez for policy prescriptions really
need to think about what they're asking.

Oh, they know *EXACTLY* what they're asking. They are aiming for *EXACTLY* the same result.

And they deserve the same fate as tyrants everywhere.

sic semper tyrannus

Posted by: GWB at April 01, 2018 11:19 AM (exmX5)

Damn right, wrong country to pull that stunt with, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 11:21 AM (aMlLZ)

194 Damn you! Damn you all! I just bought Waugh's Sword of Honor and the War Before Civilization book. I can't read any more of this thread and have any eating money left for the week!

Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at April 01, 2018 11:21 AM (Ldpbg)

195 There is no eventual consequence for lying and destruction of culture, so he's just double down

In an honour-culture, Hogg would by now have marked himself as a shame on his family and a disgrace to his ancestors. Nobody would deal with him. He would have to live in the forest giving beejers to pandas for protein.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:21 AM (6FqZa)

196 First most useful idiots from the Sovet days I doubt ever realized they were useful idiots.
Second that Hogg I have no doubt is a hard core Leftist believing in the god ( yes small case) of Big Goverment.

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:23 AM (aC6Sd)

197 195: Instead he's a hero of the "don't you dare criticize the" Children's Crusade.

I spend a lot of time wanting to believe in an afterlife and divine retribution. Getting away from Rabbi Sharpton would be the wise choice.

Posted by: CN at April 01, 2018 11:24 AM (5gaNQ)

198 In an honour-culture, Hogg would by now have marked
himself as a shame on his family and a disgrace to his ancestors. Nobody
would deal with him. He would have to live in the forest giving beejers
to pandas for protein.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 11:21 AM (6FqZa)

In a more ancient culture he would be pouring wine and wiping dicks clean at Roman orgies.
and pee sitting down.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 01, 2018 11:24 AM (aMlLZ)

199 As this is the anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa

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Damn Okies deserved it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (+y/Ru)

200 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
...........
Posted by: Aeric at April 01, 2018 11:20 AM

For the Toriphile I use to be never once looked into Neil Gaiman

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (aC6Sd)

201 I'm not a fan of Laura, but FFS ...

Hogg has made himself a public figure engaged in public debate. Standard is you can say anything about him unless it's false AND uttered recklessly. You'd think MSM would be standing up for Laura, if only to protect their 1st Amendment prerogatives.

And he's not a child. Within living memory, young men like Hogg would and could be drafted to go shoot and be shot in foreign lands.

Hogg wasn't in the building when the shooting happened. And he wasn't personally close to anyone who got killed or wounded. So he's not a "survivor" unless we want to cheapen what it should mean.

Someone in journalism needs to ask him if he knew the shooter -- and if he knew he had issues -- and whether he tried to do anything about it -- or if in fact he bullied him. You can guess the answers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (pV/54)

202 I was kinda hoping you'd do something on Sean Penn's atrocious book. The sidebar link to the review is revealing, I have zero interest in reading his book but its ... awful, by every human standard. I can tell this by reading the excerpts that Ms Fallon puts in her review, and its on the Huffington Post, so she's hardly a hostile voice.

http://tinyurl.com/y9vvhhb3

For example

"Whenever he felt these collisions of incubus and succubus, he punched his way out of the proletariat with the purposeful inputting of covert codes, thereby drawing distraction through Scottsdale deployments, dodging the ambush of innocents astray, evading the viscount vogue of Viagratic assaults on virtual vaginas, or worse, falling passively into prosaic pastimes."

Its all this way, every quote, and she gives about a dozen. All of them are ridiculously turgid and self important trash, the kind of thing someone who is trying terribly hard to portray themselves as intellectual without the intellect to back it up will use. I can't remember the word, but OM posted it a few weeks back: use of fancy words where a simple one is far better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (39g3+)

203
Weasel, describe "small".
Basic ammo load-out small?
Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 11:06 AM (SHf7F)
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Nah, nowhere near that much! Just a few hundred dollars for annual filing fees and postage and so forth.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (MVjcR)

204 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and the Wrecks Is History at April 01, 2018 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

Undoubtedly, George Clooney does not think of himself as a pretentious Hollywood blowhard, and so would it would not naturally occur to him that those lines apply to him.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at April 01, 2018 11:16 AM (jlKn3)

Clooney directed (and is credited as a writer) on the movie about Ed Murrow and Tailgunner Joe and the commies, so I have to think he's at least aware that this film, and his role in it essentially twists that story, and turns it almost completely around.

The commie writers are asses, the actors are idiots, and in this little universe (fictionalized Hollywood in the 50s), capitalism works exactly as it does.

I don't want to spoil the plot for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it's impossible for me to see how Clooney would not realize how fully his character is a stylized version of himself. And others like him.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 11:26 AM (Pz4pT)

205 189
PJ O'Rourke extolls the virtues of the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittannica.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at April 01, 2018 11:18 AM (jlKn3)

Why did he recommend that edition in particular? Seems it's missing a lot, namely WWI, WWII, and relativity.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 11:28 AM (sdi6R)

206 >>> Reality comes knocking at his door, so to speak, in various ways, until it finally kicks down the door and attempts to burn his life to the ground.

I'll show YOU the work of the mind! I'll show YOU the work of the mind!

I'LL SHOW YOU THE WORK OF THE MIND!!!

Posted by: Mad Man Munce at April 01, 2018 11:28 AM (cHbmY)

207 Is there an encyclopedia that is worth having, possibly from the 1930s or 40s?

My mom has a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1941. Its pretty amazing, and while there are some gaps, its quite encyclopedic, and is incredibly neutral, scholarly, and even in tone. I've not found anything where there was a bigoted, slanted, or even dated attitude. Some of the information has been replaced with more accurate stuff over time, but a lot is more accurate in that set than modern takes. Plus: valuable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:29 AM (39g3+)

208 203
Weasel, describe "small".
Basic ammo load-out small?
Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 11:06 AM (SHf7F)
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Nah, nowhere near that much! Just a few hundred dollars for annual filing fees and postage and so forth.
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (MVjcR)
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We're also considering some future ventures and want to stay cash positive if any of those make it off the drawing board. Stay tuned!

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:30 AM (MVjcR)

209 Serendipity, need to add references to Amelia Anne Blandford Edwards when restarting the story about Catherine and Diana in Egypt. Seriously, Cat's father just might have known her or been inspired by her writings to take up the field of Egyptology.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ychwslps

Now to see if Gutenberg has any of this. The pickings are very slim, only two of her stories seem to be present while she is mentioned in other works.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Amelia+B.+Edwards

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:31 AM (PMIYQ)

210 This Online Encyclopedia was originally based on the 11th Edition
Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911. This historically
significant reference work is, arguably, the last general encyclopedia
to offer articles in such extreme depth. Over 320 historians, 250
ministers, and many diplomats, theologians, scientists, and government
officials from around the world personally wrote this encyclopedia's
articles, totaling more than 44 million words!=====

I have 11th Edition (with leather binding and gold) that I used in HS as my reference. My family is from Chicago, so that and the Great Books were a commonplace. The almost tissue paper pages are difficult, but it really tried to be a compendium of the best current scholarship. I always was fascinated in that an article would suddenly go into another language (Latin, Greek, French, German) and just any old educated person was assumed to know it.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 01, 2018 11:31 AM (MIKMs)

211 JTB

I couldn't believe my luck. I scored hardback copies of both the OED and Bartlett's Quotations at the freebie bin at Richard McKay's Emporium! Best part is that both are in excellent condition.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 01, 2018 11:32 AM (n9EOP)

212 >>> I doubt Hogg boy is intelligent enough to ever realize he's been manipulated.

Sure he is. The question is whether his ego will permit him to accept it when the realization bubbles up through his thoughts.

Posted by: fluffy at April 01, 2018 11:32 AM (cHbmY)

213 Have evil head-cold and may have imagined a comment or two here about dream car, so I'll go out on a limb and pose this question that a co-worker raised during a mental health break on Friday: if you had unlimited money, what "dream car" would you get? My answer, (1) Austin Healey 3000 or (2) 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 2-door, midnight-blue.

Posted by: FIIGMO at April 01, 2018 11:32 AM (E+qJE)

214 I doubt Hogg boy is intelligent enough to ever realize he's been manipulated.

Tough to manipulate the willing. This is his young life's goal, he wants to be either a journalist or a community organizer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:33 AM (39g3+)

215 213 Have evil head-cold and may have imagined a comment or two here about dream car, so I'll go out on a limb and pose this question that a co-worker raised during a mental health break on Friday: if you had unlimited money, what "dream car" would you get? My answer, (1) Austin Healey 3000 or (2) 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 2-door, midnight-blue.
Posted by: FIIGMO at April 01, 2018 11:32 AM (E+qJE)
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Something that begins with Shelby and ends with Cobra.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:34 AM (MVjcR)

216 179 So if a rickshaw spills over, would that be a rick roll?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:13 AM (PMIYQ)

Ow. Just cuz Muldoon isn't here...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 01, 2018 11:35 AM (xJa6I)

217 If Sean Penn wasn't such an arrogant shit, I'd wager the entire book a joke, with a passage declaring such somewhere in the middle knowing full well no one, not an editor, not a proofreader, not a single human being has or ever will read the whole damn thing.

Judging by the excerpts, reading that whole thing would be as difficult as a detailed self vivisection and significantly less enjoyable.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 01, 2018 11:35 AM (tMFgx)

218 More awful quotes from Sean Penn's dreck:

"Behind decorative gabion walls, an elderly neighbor sits centurion on his porch watching Bob with surreptitious soup�on." -- page 71

"While the privileged patronize this pickle as epithet to the epigenetic inequality of equals, Bob smells a cyber-assisted assault emboldened by right-brain Hollywood narcissists." -- page 99

"Silly questions of cherries saved served to sever any last impression Bob might have had of Spurley as a serious citizen." -- page 94

"There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations." -- page 125

He misuses terms and fills his writing up with this crap like the Jailhouse Lawyer on In Living Color. Its almost comical, except he's dead serious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:36 AM (39g3+)

219 Sean Penn, making Vogon poetry accessible...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:36 AM (PMIYQ)

220 Hogg is an attention whore, attention positive or negative. In his mind he can't lose with the gun issue, until some other attention whore usurps him.

Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2018 11:38 AM (djCea)

221 We have a Webster's Dictionary from 1860, bicycle isn't even a word in there, by gun cotton is and tells how to make it.

Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:38 AM (aC6Sd)

222 We choose spokespeople immune from criticism, striking fear in the hearts of conservatives everywhere as human shields they dare not attack. The only thing, Hogg will someday be old enough not to be immune. He needs to consider becoming Muslim or gay.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 01, 2018 11:39 AM (fZlu3)

223 That's a good way of putting it. Sean Penn is writing Vogon prose.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:41 AM (39g3+)

224 221 We have a Webster's Dictionary from 1860, bicycle isn't even a word in there, by gun cotton is and tells how to make it.
Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:38 AM (aC6Sd)

The first Britannica has a detailed article about rope-making, which was a pretty important industry considering that sailing ships were a big deal at the time.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 11:41 AM (sdi6R)

225 We have a Webster's Dictionary from 1860, bicycle isn't even a word in there, by gun cotton is and tells how to make it.
Posted by: Skip Go Cats! at April 01, 2018 11:38 AM (aC6Sd)
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I love the older reference books. Try looking under 'velocipede' and see if it is there.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 01, 2018 11:43 AM (MIKMs)

226 Sean Penn writes like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at April 01, 2018 11:46 AM (NWiLs)

227 Posted by: BurtTC at April 01, 2018 10:40 AM (Pz4pT)
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Burt, I loved that movie and couldn't believe I was seeing a flick in which Herbert Marcuse (or simulacrum of same) and his coterie of Commies were the bad guys.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 11:46 AM (qJtVm)

228 226 Sean Penn writes like a fag and his shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at April 01, 2018 11:46 AM (NWiLs)
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This.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:47 AM (MVjcR)

229 Sean Penn writes like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

The problem I have here is that this was Apple Boy doctor's analysis of a sane, normal pattern of speech.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:48 AM (39g3+)

230 Who did "rock worshippers" refer to in Captain Hate's original comment? I guess it was some kind of slur, since OM blacked it out, but who was he hating on. Google comes up with Wicians and other types of Gaia lunatics. Al Swearengen used "dirt worshipers" to refer to American Indians. None of that seems to fit the groups in Yugo.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 01, 2018 11:49 AM (pvjTE)

231 And thanks to the writings of Ms Amelia B Edwards just learned a new word - ormolu

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:50 AM (PMIYQ)

232 There's a rock in SA some people think is extra special.

Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2018 11:51 AM (djCea)

233 So lower Michigan is in the clear from getting any
more Chinese junk. Now if it hits Beijing I might have to take a swig to
toast some epic Schadenfraud.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:00 AM (PMIYQ)
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Good news indeed, as that's where Eris's Mom lives (Michigan, not Beijing).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 11:53 AM (qJtVm)

234 Eris, what did you think of "A Ghost Story"? Were you able to get through the whole thing?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 01, 2018 11:55 AM (pvjTE)

235 I should rewatch Barton Fink because it's been a long time but I remember really enjoying it at the time. I guess I need to see Hail, Caesar as well; any movie that has that razor cut pretty boy hilljack, Clooney, inadvertently mocking his entire persona is something to be savored.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 11:01 AM (y7DUB)

I liked "Barton Fink".

John Goodman's fat ass as the devil excoriating Barton for complaining about every little thing.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 01, 2018 11:56 AM (EoRCO)

236 I am currently reading Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. Its not a hugely gripping book but its enjoyable enough. A short little thing about a spoiled punk teen who falls overboard and is picked up by New England Cod fishermen off the Grand Banks, learns to be more humble and to appreciate hard work.

Tons of details and information about the fisheries at the time and the characters are interesting enough. Kipling has a gift for storytelling of course.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:57 AM (39g3+)

237 That indeed is good news Eris or you might have to take whips and chains to Xi of Beijing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 01, 2018 11:59 AM (PMIYQ)

238 Anna, OM, and rickl, Thanks for the mention of the encyclopedias. I have to check out Anna's link to the 1911 Britannica. It should be fun reading (Yes, I am a nerd.) and wouldn't take up shelf space we don't have.

I just found on Amazon a DVD-ROM of the complete 1911 edition for 15 bucks and shipping. No reviews yet but it is worth trying for that price. I think the same company offers the 1797 version as well but I'll see how the first one goes before ordering any others.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 12:00 PM (V+03K)

239 Captains Courageous -- now I have to look up whatever happened to Freddy Bartholomew.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 01, 2018 12:00 PM (MIKMs)

240 I'm on kind of a quest to read all those books I should have read in the past, but never got around to. I can't read Dickens, his style just annoys me and hes a little too heavily preachy and allegorical to take seriously. But there are a lot of authors and classic books I've not read.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 12:04 PM (39g3+)

241 211 .. Hrothgar, MASSIVE congrats on the OED and Bartlett's finds. And for free!! It is amazing at what is valued and isn't.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 12:06 PM (V+03K)

242 We're also considering some future ventures and want to stay cash positive if any of those make it off the drawing board. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:30 AM (MVjcR)

Aaaah!
"Individualized Small Unit Tactics".
By
The Horde

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 12:07 PM (SHf7F)

243 Professor Sean Penn is to literature what Stormy Daniels is to exotic dancing.

Posted by: Fritz at April 01, 2018 12:07 PM (bJ0w+)

244 If you want to see more of Reagan, be sure to check out his appearances on William Buckley's "Firing Line." FL has its own channel on YouTube and it is fun to watch these insights into the past. Reagan, being a friend of Buckley, shows up in several of the episodes available on the Firing Line channel.

The channel also has several episodes for the literary minded, such as discussions/interviews with Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Hugh Kenner, and more.

Posted by: Dwight at April 01, 2018 12:08 PM (iAl7a)

245 Better yet!
"Deplorable Dating Dos and Donts"

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 12:11 PM (SHf7F)

246 We're also considering some future ventures and want to stay cash positive if any of those make it off the drawing board. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Weasel

Would that be the Moron Illustrated Edition of the Kama Sutra?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 01, 2018 12:11 PM (1F6Sr)

247
242 We're also considering some future ventures and want to stay cash positive if any of those make it off the drawing board. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 11:30 AM (MVjcR)

Aaaah!
"Individualized Small Unit Tactics".
By
The Horde
Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 12:07 PM (SHf7F)
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TDG and the MRE.

Posted by: Weasel at April 01, 2018 12:11 PM (MVjcR)

248 Professor Sean Penn is to literature what Stormy Daniels is to exotic dancing.

Sounds more like what Stormy Daniels is to astronomical physics.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 12:12 PM (6FqZa)

249 Hrothgar, MASSIVE congrats on the OED and Bartlett's finds. And for free!!

That is a shocking get, I'd love to have both.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 12:12 PM (39g3+)

250 243 Professor Sean Penn is to literature what Stormy Daniels is to exotic dancing.
Posted by: Fritz at April 01, 2018 12:07 PM (bJ0w+)

I'm fairly sure that she is much better at exotic dancing that Penn is at writing.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 12:13 PM (sdi6R)

251 For lovers of Terry Pratchett's works, I can heartily recommend Christopher Moore. Imagine Discworld type characters, set in San Francisco. 'A Dirty Job' is his best.

Posted by: Aeric at April 01, 2018 12:13 PM (ZbgGv)

252 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 01, 2018 12:14 PM (GpV0O)

253 New Tiangong-1 update: Now April 2 00:18 UT +-2 hrs.

This reduces the error bars.

http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2018 12:15 PM (sdi6R)

254 Sort of book related. Amazon Prime started showing "The Dangerous Book For Boys" TV series yesterday. It is, supposedly, based on the book of the same name. Anyhow, if you enjoyed the book (I did) you might want to catch an episode and see what the heck it is about.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 12:17 PM (V+03K)

255 There's a rock in SA some people think is extra special.

Posted by: davidt

Could be someone's dinner.

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 12:18 PM (rQewO)

256 Happy belated Birthday, Sabrina !

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 12:19 PM (rQewO)

257 234 Eris, what did you think of "A Ghost Story"? Were you able to get through the whole thing?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 01, 2018 11:55 AM (pvjTE)

It was ve-e-e-e-ery slow but I liked the glacial pace, it suited the story. It's like time is a river but the Ghost is mired on the river bank and everything is passing him by; he's stuck, in death just like he was in life.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 12:21 PM (qJtVm)

258 I love older reference books (circa 1750 to early 1900s) both for the content and the interesting and, often, excellent writing. I have a number of older dictionaries and collections of articles on various topics. Always worth the time.

I'll report back to the thread when the 1911 Britannica DVD arrives.

Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 12:28 PM (V+03K)

259 It was ve-e-e-e-ery slow but I liked the glacial pace, it suited the story. It's like time is a river but the Ghost is mired on the river bank and everything is passing him by; he's stuck, in death just like he was in life.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2018 12:21 PM (qJtVm)

++++

I don't mind a slow story if I'm in the right mood. But, I still want it to pay off. I just didn't figure it did in that movie. Glad it worked for you.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 01, 2018 12:34 PM (pvjTE)

260 Just checking in - Happy Easter!

Posted by: Bookaday at April 01, 2018 12:51 PM (2qDS0)

261 Grigory Kessel (Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Manchester):

SYRIAC LITERATURE WE DO NOT KNOW: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE UNEDITED TEXTS IN
SYRIAC

The 20th century witnessed a remarkable boom in the Syriac studies. Hundreds of text editions and even more studies have appeared (the sub-series 'Scriptores syri' published by Peeters includes some 130 editions and the 'Patrologia Orientalis' some 65) thereby providing sources and demonstrating the immediate relevance of the Syriac Christianity and its heritage to many adjacent disciplines, such as Late Antique studies, Byzantine studies, Islamic studies, etc. Sebastian P. Brock played a key role in the revival of the field. Having edited himself many
Syriac texts, he supervised, mentored, supported and incited many dozens of other editions.
And yet, despite this intense editorial activity there remain many works still waiting for a publication. The task is now even more demanding because thanks to the digitisation campaigns of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library thousands of Syriac manuscripts have become available. Some of those manuscripts were known from old catalogue descriptions, but most have become known for the first time ever. Besides the Middle Eastern and Indian collections, the libraries in Europe and US also possess the manuscripts containing unexplored material that is becoming more easily accessible thanks to digitisation initiatives carried out by the libraries (for example, the Vatican library, Berlin State library and French National library). In my talk, I am going to highlight the vast amount of unedited texts in Syriac by way of presenting some works belonging to different genres.

Yes, that was drool on my chin just now

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 01, 2018 01:02 PM (6FqZa)

262 An Easter inspired suggestion today: ''Dear and Glorious Physician" by Taylor Caldwell. As this wonderful novel, the story of St. Luke, was recommended here at the AoSHQ, I feel it's appropriate to pass it on to others who may be interested.

Posted by: Tuna at April 01, 2018 01:09 PM (jm1YL)

263 Just started the 9YO Younger Barbarian on Pratchett's Tiffany Aching arc. The Wee Free Men should be required reading for all boy-spawn.

The other day he dropped a popsicle outside and I heard him go "Ach! Crivens!"

Posted by: RightWingProf at April 01, 2018 01:17 PM (ta2bB)

264 Who did "rock worshippers" refer to in Captain Hate's original comment?

The Muslims from that fossilized dinosaur turd or whatever it is they lose their tiny minds over in Mecca.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 01:18 PM (y7DUB)

265 Well, this is very obvious, but Reagan's own "An American Life" is the starting point for anyone wanting to know more about the man. It is better written and less self-serving than most autobiographies.

Posted by: rfitz3 at April 01, 2018 01:24 PM (qOzBI)

266 I can't read Dickens, his style just annoys me and hes a little too heavily preachy and allegorical to take seriously.

I find some of his characters cartoonishly drawn and have a hard time taking him seriously. That said, my book group read Tale of Two Cities recently, which I didn't gripe about much since every English class I took inexplicably avoided it, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 01, 2018 01:25 PM (y7DUB)

267 Its all this way, every quote, and she gives about a
dozen. All of them are ridiculously turgid and self important trash,
the kind of thing someone who is trying terribly hard to portray
themselves as intellectual without the intellect to back it up will use.
I can't remember the word, but OM posted it a few weeks back: use of
fancy words where a simple one is far better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2018 11:25 AM (39g3+)

Sesquipedalian?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2018 01:28 PM (2K6fY)

268 253
New Tiangong-1 update: Now April 2 00:18 UT +-2 hrs.

access denied

Posted by: Anachronda at April 01, 2018 01:54 PM (2//jc)

269 245
Better yet!

"Deplorable Dating Dos and Donts"

it strikes me that DOntS would be a fine name for a small operating system.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 01, 2018 01:56 PM (2//jc)

270 Deplorable Disaster Survival Tips

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 01, 2018 02:24 PM (hMwEB)

271 >>>180 my "gee, I need to look up this weird idea I just had" impulses
Posted by: JTB at April 01, 2018 11:13 AM (V+03K)

This = me, in spades.

Posted by: m at April 01, 2018 03:00 PM (U6XUk)

272 I got a Reagan bio by H.W. Brands that I have yet to read. But I bought it on the strength of other books of his that I liked. Eventually I'll read it (I keep saying to myself).

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at April 01, 2018 03:25 PM (HCyRH)

273 I'm currently reading "Disclosure" bt Michael Chrichton.

It's great, as are all of his books.

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2018 05:23 PM (rQewO)

274 120 Walden Shock - Mark Robins.
Almost done and enjoying it, with one HUGE exception.
Mark, Mark, Mark. For EVERY use of the possessive pronoun, you have used IT'S instead of ITS!
Here's a tip:
Personal possessive pronouns are all the same.
His
Hers
Theirs
Yours
Ours
Its

IT'S is a contraction of IT IS.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 10:35 AM (SHf7F)

Oh thank you, thank you! I'm about two-thirds through it, and that has been driving me bonkers! I can't say I'm enjoying the book very much; probably just not an interesting topic to me, but I have trouble visualizing what he describes, and I keep waiting for a plot to happen.

Posted by: Miss Sippi at April 01, 2018 05:24 PM (XnOSn)

275 Hope you are feeling better OMuse.

And yes our so taking sides with Muslims against the Orthodox seems odder and odder as events unfold. Maybe the Serbs knew what was coming far better the we did?

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at April 01, 2018 08:18 PM (8gdsS)

276 Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at April 01, 2018 10:35 AM (SHf7F)

RI Red, you have my vote for a weekly/monthly column for wordsmith types.

Thx,

WinLinBSDAdmin

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at April 02, 2018 02:36 PM (vgwv+)

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